tome
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(tōm) 
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n.
- One of the books in a work of several volumes.
- A book, especially a large or scholarly one.
[French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos, a cutting, section, from temnein, to cut.]
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IN BRIEF: A (usually) large and scholarly book.
Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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categories related to 'tome'
- Publications - tome: large, scholarly book
- Books and Pages - tome: very large or scholarly work
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A tome is a large book, especially one volume of a multi-volume scholarly work.
It may also refer to:
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Places
- Tome, Miyagi, city in Japan (formerly Tome District)
- Tome-Adelino, New Mexico, city in New Mexico
People
- Gianfranco Labarthe Tome (born 1984), Peruvian footballer
- Jacob Tome (1810 – 1898), American philanthropist, founder of the Tome School
- Maria Tome, São Toméan politician
- Norman Tome (born 1973), Australian soccer player
- "Philippe Tome", pseudonym used by writer Philippe Vandevelde
- Tome H. Walters Jr., American Air Force General
Games
- The Linux Game Tome, games website
- Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome, video game
- ToME (Tales of Middle Earth), video game
- Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME), a Roguelike computer game
- one of several rulebooks for Dungeons & Dragons:
- Tome of Magic, handbook of rules and guidelines for Dungeons & Dragons
- Tome of Battle, rule supplement for Dungeons & Dragons
- Tome and Blood, optional rulebook for Dungeons & Dragons
Other
- Tome's Spiny-rat, Central-American spiny rat
- Tome School, prep school in North East, Maryland
- TV Tome, United States website for television information
- Tome Sculptures, album by band Agathodaimon
- Tome cheese, French cheese produced in the Alpine region
See also
- Rotonda di San Tomè (Italian: Rotunda of St. Thomas), church in the comune of Almenno San Bartolomeo, in the province of Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
- Tomé (disambiguation)
- Tomb
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Tome
Dansk (Danish)
n. - bind af større værk, digert bind
Français (French)
n. - gros volume
Português (Portuguese)
n. - volume (m), tomo (m)
Русский (Russian)
(книжный) том
Español (Spanish)
n. - libraco, volumen, tomo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - stor bok, lunta, diger volym, del, band
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
册, 大型书本, 卷
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 冊, 大型書本, 卷
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 한 권, 크고 방대한 책
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) كتاب كبير, جزء من مجلد من كتاب
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כרך עבה, ספר כבד
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